Tooting Bec Station (Including Above Ground Buildings and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages)

TOOTING BEC STATION (INCLUDING ABOVE GROUND BUILDINGS AND SUB SURFACE PLATFORMS AND PASSAGES), BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW17

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065477
Date first listed:
16-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Tooting Bec Station (Including Above Ground Buildings and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages)
Statutory Address:
TOOTING BEC STATION (INCLUDING ABOVE GROUND BUILDINGS AND SUB SURFACE PLATFORMS AND PASSAGES), BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW17
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065477
Date first listed:
16-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Tooting Bec Station (Including Above Ground Buildings and Sub Surface Platforms and Passages)
Statutory Address 1:
TOOTING BEC STATION (INCLUDING ABOVE GROUND BUILDINGS AND SUB SURFACE PLATFORMS AND PASSAGES), BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW17

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TOOTING BEC STATION (INCLUDING ABOVE GROUND BUILDINGS AND SUB SURFACE PLATFORMS AND PASSAGES), BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW17

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 28016 72366

Details

BALHAM HIGH ROAD,SW17 1. 5033 Tooting Bec Station (including above ground buildings and sub-surface TQ27SE 4/40 platforms and passages) II 2. LRT station. 1926 by Charles Holden. Astylar Portland stone corner building. Two street entrances with continual moulded lintel and canopy. Large triple window over with glazed roundel sign and tapering mullions with spherical capitals. Ticket hall with wall tiling and trabeated ceiling. Secondary entrance building between Stapleton and Tooting Bec Roads in similar style. Modern escalators.Sub-surface platforms and passages retain their original tiled decoration and many original signs. One of several stations on the Northern Line extension designed by Holden.

Listing NGR: TQ2801672366

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
207205
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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